A US team is on a visit to Assam to find out the mortal remains of their four soldiers who died in air crash during the World War II. Led by David Gooch, the team under the banner of Joint Prisoners of War/Missing in Action Accounting Command is visiting Sivasagar district.
The focus of attention is a tiny village in Charaideo where the US team along with the officials of archeological survey of India is searching the remains of the US soldiers. The team starts search operation from Wednesday till November 5. The mortal remains, if found, would be handed over to the family members.
The crash took place on June 26 in 1944 when the US war plane crashed with eleven soldiers in Kothiakhunda village. Bodies of seven soldiers were recovered. Four others were left out because of an unavoidable circumstances.
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The US Government is currently working with Rimo Expeditions to recover the mortal remains of four crewmen still missing from the crash of the US Army Air Force B-29 bomber "Eileen", which crashed in Assam's Sivasagar district on 26 June 1944. The missing airmen are 2nd Lt. Walter B. Miklosh of Illinois, Flight Officer Chester L. Rinke of Michigan, S/Sgt. Donal C. Aiken of Washington state, and T/Sgt. John M. Larkins of Tennessee (sources: C. M. Quinn, The Aluminum Trail (1989), National World War II Memorial). We pray that their remains will be recovered and returned to their families. We thank the Government of India for permitting this recovery operation in Assam to proceed...Gary Zaetz, Founder and Chairman of Families and Supporters of America's Arunachal Missing in Action
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Normalcy prevails in Sualkuchi where curfew was relaxed for ten hours on Monday. The district administration relaxed curfew from 5 in the morning. Army was withdrawn from the silk village on Sunday night when no untoward incident was reported.Police have so far arrested five persons in connection with the violence that broke out in the silk village during a weavers’ protest against procurement of Varanasi silk products and their alleged sale by some local traders as Assam silk products at Sualkuchi.
Normal train services remained heavily disrupted when people in large number Karbi Anglong district staged rail blockade in Diphu opposing move to amend the Sixth Schedule.The Karbi people under the banner of the Joint Action Committee thronged the Diphu railway station at 5-30 in the morning alleging that the amendment move would deprive them of the rights they have been enjoying for decades. They sent a fax memorandum to prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh to ensure their right. This has forced several trains to remain stranded in Dimapur for several hours on Monday morning.
Security forces killed a GNLA militant at an encounter in Goalpara district on Sunday.According to police, the two GNLA cadres, riding a bike, fired at the security when they were intercepted by the team on a road in Khashi Ghaghra. One GNLA militant Khowak Marak was killed and his associate Niksrang Sangma injured. Sangma was rushed to the Guwahati Medical College. A pistol and four bullets were recovered from the militants based in Meghalaya. The operation was conducted jointly by Assam Police and 19 Dogra Regiment.
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Sunday took stock of the situation in Sualkuchi from district deputy commissioner S K Roy. Gogoi directed Roy to relax the curfew to facilitate the people to buy essential goods.He also directed the Home Secretary, senior police officials and the DC to have a meeting later to discuss the situation and chalk out a plan to normalise the situation in Sualkuchi.
The indefinite curfew was reclamped in Sualkuchi on Sunday a day after clashes between the protestors and the security personnel that left at least seven people injured.People in the silk town confined to their homes whereas army flagmarch continued.
Army has been deployed and indefinite curfew clamped on Saturday in the silk town Sualkuchi in Kamrup (Rural) district following protests against use of artificial silk during which 10 persons were injured in police firing.The district administration called in the army after imposing the prohibitory orders under section 144 Cr P C from 2 pm to contain a second day of protests by weavers who called a 12-hour bandh.Personnel of the Army's Punjab Regiment were patrolling the town along with police and paramilitary forces.
Several persons have been injured when security forces sprang upon a group of people in Sualkuchi who took to the streets against the sale of Banaras-made silk cloths. The situation suddenly started simmering when local people in large number attacked the security forces defying Section 144 CrPC for trying to quell the protesters. As the policemen tried to contain the situation the protestors pelted stones at them forcing the security forces to retaliate.Earlier, they forced the State Bank of India branch to down the shutters alleging that the bank officials have been providing the sellers with loan money who have been importing the Benaras made clothes.Protesters have already burnt down...
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